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But this time, Yang Sichang could see that Chongzhen was on Lu Xiangsheng's side, and Chongzhen was indeed played by the Tartars because of the peace talks before.

At the beginning, he proposed peace talks, but now of course he is going to be angry by Chongzhen, so Yang Sichang can only honestly follow and find a way to solve it.

It's just that Chongzhen also allocated him 150,000 taels of silver, which is much better than Chen Xinjia, who didn't give a penny.

At the same time, Yang Sichang also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, since Chongzhen handed over such an important matter to him, it also showed that he did not intend to pursue the previous peace talks too much.

As for how to use 150,000 taels of silver to deal with the affairs of the homeless people, it is actually not a difficult thing for Yang Sichang.

That group of mud legs, just divide some food a little, and then forcibly send them away, but this time there is no oil and water to fish.

After saying this, Chongzhen turned his gaze to Li Zixiao and said in a deep voice: "You are the guerrilla Li Zixiao from Henan?" ”

When everyone heard this, Qi Qi turned their heads to the back and looked at Li Zixiao, who had been standing, and saw the latter in a daze.

It wasn't until he didn't know who it was and pushed him, Li Zixiao came to his senses, hurriedly walked out, bowed down to Chongzhen, and said respectfully: "Weichen Yongcheng Tunjun guerrilla Li Zixiao, knock to see the emperor!" ”

Chongzhen looked at Li Zixiao, who was kneeling below, his originally tense face was also soothed, and finally smiled: "Li Aiqing, let's be flat!" ”

"Long live thanks!"

When Li Zixiao stood up, Chongzhen smiled and said: "I only listened to Lu Aiqing's report, captured Kong Youde alive, offered 3,000 Tartar heads, relieved the siege of Shunde Mansion, Jia Zhuang tried his best to save Lu Aiqing, and Mercedes Benz supported Jinan Mansion.

Aiqing's every contribution is shocking, listening to Lu Aiqing say, under the leadership of Jia Zhuang Aiqing, he entered the Tartar group, like entering the realm of no one, it can really be described as the three armies of the brave crown! ”

As soon as Chongzhen's words came out, all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked at Li Zixiao, each of these credits was shocking, and it was said by Chongzhen himself, and the meaning was even different.

If these military exploits are reported to Chongzhen by a minister, Chongzhen also needs to send someone to verify the authenticity, and then reward the meritorious deeds.

But now Chongzhen openly said these achievements of Li Zixiao in front of the ministers, which means that Chongzhen has actually recognized the truth of Li Zixiao's achievements.

Even Yang Sichang below, an old face at this time is not good-looking, and he feels that Chongzhen's attitude towards Li Zixiao today is too good.

It's not at all like what he showed some time ago, Chongzhen had heard of Li Zixiao's name before, but he didn't like it very much.

What is going on today, Lu Xiangsheng alone is not enough to change Chongzhen's prejudice against a general like Li Zixiao.

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Sichang still couldn't figure out what method this Li Zixiao used to gain Chongzhen's favor.

Of course, Yang Sichang didn't know that Li Zixiao paid 1.4 million taels of silver in order to gain Chongzhen's favor!

Chongzhen took this silver, which simply solved Chongzhen's urgent need, and the little prejudice against Li Zixiao before disappeared completely.

Regarding the origin of these silvers, Lu Xiangsheng said that Li Zixiao took them back from the hands of the Tartars and dedicated them to the saints, how rare it is!

A capable battle tartar, and will give himself silver, and also send a rebellious minister who makes him grit his teeth with hatred, all of which makes Chongzhen happier and happier the more he thinks about it, and the more he appreciates this Li Zixiao.

Chongzhen already plans to listen to Lu Xiangsheng's advice this time and use Li Zixiao to be an example for the generals of the Ming Dynasty.

Let other Ming generals know that the imperial court does not hesitate to reward meritorious officials, and it is also a stimulus to other Ming generals.

"Thank you for the emperor's compliment, Weichen is just doing his duty as a courtier."

Li Zixiao was neither humble nor arrogant, thanked him, and then continued: "As a general of the Ming Dynasty, Weichen naturally wants to fight on the battlefield for the emperor and the court, and he doesn't dare to praise the emperor." ”

"Hehe, Li Aiqing said it well."

Seeing Li Zixiao speaking so straightforwardly, and seeing Li Zixiao's dignified appearance and burly figure, Chongzhen couldn't help but appreciate it more and more.

At this time, Chen Xinjia received Yang Sichang's eyes, signaling him to follow what they discussed last night, and now it was time for him to come forward to question the authenticity of Li Zixiao's achievements.

Chen Xinjia had a wry smile on his face, he really didn't want to stand up again at this time, he had just escaped.

At this time, he should try to keep a low profile, and first find a way to solve the problem of the dismissal of the hundreds of thousands of troops outside the capital, then he has the heart to take care of Li Zixiao!

Li Zixiao's military exploits have already been recognized by Chongzhen just now, if he comes out to question Li Zixiao again at this time, it will not be questioning the saint!

However, Chen Xinjia knew that if he wanted to dismiss the rude soldiers outside, Yang Sichang would have to help, otherwise it would be difficult for him to complete this matter.

Therefore, at this time, Chen Xinjia could only bite the bullet, stand up again, and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Li Zixiao's merits, our military department has not fully verified them, I'm afraid there will be untruths in them!" ”

Chen Xinjia is in the Ministry of War, and he is responsible for verifying the generals' military exploits, which is a fat gap, and I don't know how many Ming generals have to please him.

Jia Wenru, the prefect of Shunde, sent it before, about Li Zixiao helping them and defending Shunde Mansion to repel more than 7,000 Tartar attacks.

, was given to Yang Sichang by Chen Xinjia, and then suppressed by Yang Sichang.

But Chen Xinjia forgot that Lu Xiangsheng was the secretary of the military department, and he belonged to his immediate boss, and he could send someone to re-verify the results at any time.

"Chen Shilang, this official has sent someone to Shunde and Jinan to verify before, and the prefect of Shunde said that as early as two months ago, he had already played the imperial court, I don't know why Chen Shilang didn't know?"

Lu Xiangsheng's rhetorical question directly made Chen Xinjia shut his mouth.

Then Lu Xiangsheng continued: "Kong Youde was indeed captured by Li Guerrilla, after all, he has been sent to the capital, and the emperor has ordered that Ling Chi be executed at the Nanmen vegetable market at noon today. ”

In addition, King De of Jinan personally sent someone to send a recital, stating that Li Guerrilla risked his life to assist in defending the city.

And because of the peace talks proposed by Chen Shilang, more than 300,000 officers and soldiers were left in the capital to consume food in vain, resulting in Jinan being completely broken, and King De was about to write to impeach you. ”

Lu Xiangsheng didn't forget to hit his subordinate, as a soldier in the military department, he dared to hook up with Yang Sichang, he simply didn't take him as a top boss in his eyes!

"As for the battle of the Maguan camp, there were 3,000 Tartar heads to testify, and His Majesty personally sent someone to inspect it, and in the battle of Jiazhuang, the official was rescued by Li Guerrilla, and Kong Youde was the best result.

I don't know what else Chen Shilang has to question, does Chen Shilang think that His Majesty and his own officials, as well as the King of Jinan, or the prefect of Shunde, can't lie. ”

When Chen Xinjia heard this, he was sweating, and he didn't dare to answer this.

At the same time, Chen Xinjia also muttered in his heart: "How can this Lu Xiangsheng come back as if he has changed into a different person, so aggressive." ”

Yang Sichang on the side is best at observing words and feelings, and from Chongzhen's performance at this time, this old guy knows that there will be no result in hindering Li Zixiao today.

Chen Xinjia was the pathfinder stone he threw out before, and since Chongzhen had an idea in his heart, it was useless for him to impeach Li Zixiao again.

And Yang Sichang knew that Chongzhen was not a mediocre gentleman, even if Yang Sichang could see at this time that Chongzhen was going to promote and reuse Li Zixiao.

But Yang Sichang knew that even if he didn't impeach Li Zixiao, Chongzhen would beat Li Zixiao after a while.

Presumably, since Chongzhen absolutely reuses Li Zixiao, he must have sent someone to investigate his past clearly.

As a result, Yang Sichang temporarily changed his mind, and did not obstruct this newly emerging general with real power, saying that he would still need to deal with him in the future, and it was not good to stiffen the relationship now.

Sure enough, seeing that no one questioned Li Zixiao's achievements, Chongzhen suddenly asked: "Li Aiqing, I received a letter from the former Yangzhou prefect a few days ago.

Said that some time ago, you killed a grain merchant and opened a warehouse to release grain, is this true? ”

Speaking of this, Chongzhen's tone had become stern.

Chongzhen's words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and they hit the main hall all of a sudden.

Many officials looked at Li Zixiao, killed the grain merchants without authorization, and opened people's granaries to release grain, which is a big crime!

'Here we are! After Yang Sichang saw Chongzhen's words, his old eyes lit up and he thought in his heart.

Li Zixiao didn't expect that Emperor Chongzhen would give him such a hand, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

These days he is busy fighting, and he has long forgotten about the affairs of Yangzhou.

Besides, there were too many rebellious things he had done in the past two years, and compared to what he did in Yongcheng, he overrecruited soldiers privately, and the little thing he did in Yangzhou was not a big deal at all.

Now Chongzhen suddenly brought up this matter, but he didn't say a word about the bigger sin, which made Li Zixiao think about it.

"Chongzhen is going to beat me, sweet dates must be there, and sticks are indispensable! is worthy of being the emperor, this is the way of the emperor! ”

"Li Zixiao, why don't you speak, as a military general, you actually killed the grain merchant without reporting it to the imperial court.

And he is also a former official of the imperial court, who opened a warehouse and released grain without authorization, is there still me in your eyes, and is there still the royal law of the imperial court? ”

Chongzhen's voice became louder and louder, and even the hundred officials lined up outside the main hall could hear it clearly.

Chongzhen's roaring voice echoed in the main hall, like thunder, ringing in Li Zixiao's ears, and his originally somewhat tired eyes also shot out a majestic essence at this time.

Li Zixiao knew that Chongzhen deliberately wanted to beat him, not to punish him, and his heart was half relieved, but he still had to find a way to deal with the past.

Li Zixiao stood up, looked at Chongzhen sitting on the dragon chair, and said loudly: "Emperor Qi, Emperor Shicai said that the former prefect of Yangzhou sued.

To say that Weichen killed a grain merchant in Yangzhou, that is, the former Hanlin Academy attendant Yu Daren, is completely slanderous, because Yu Daren died of a sudden heart attack, not by Weichen.

As for saying that Wechen opened a warehouse and released grain without authorization, Wechen did do it, but there was a reason for it.

Your Majesty, you don't know that tens of thousands of displaced people gathered outside Yangzhou that day, but the government has long been unable to provide disaster relief, and tens of thousands of victims are waiting to be fed outside Yangzhou.

Every day, hundreds of displaced people die of hunger and cold, and Lin Yongnian, the newly appointed governor of Yangzhou, is also making every effort to provide disaster relief, but unfortunately the Yangzhou treasury is also stretched.

And the official still has some savings in his hand, and he has accumulated some silver tickets, and wants to exchange them for silver taels, and then buy food to help the victims, which can also be regarded as a contribution to the defense of the imperial court.

But I didn't expect that Weichen's subordinates went to the money village with the bank's ticket, and the money village didn't exchange it, just because it was the Yu family's money bank, and I had some contradictions with Master Yu.

The official was angry, so he led his troops to surround Yu Fu, originally wanted to scare and scare them, but who knew that Master Yu would return to heaven without being frightened.

The lower officials were in a hurry, and threw the silver tickets directly to the Yu family, which was regarded as Weichen buying the grain in their warehouse.

Originally, Weichen thought that Xiaoxiao was small and did not have much grain in stock, but when Weichen opened the warehouse of Yujia, he found 20,000 stones of grain inside. ”

"Ten thousand stones!"

As soon as Li Zixiao said this, even Chongzhen was startled.

He frowned and said, "Li Zixiao, you're not mistaken, right?" A scholar of the Hanlin Academy, even if there is food at home, it is impossible to find 20,000 stone of grain.

That's more than one million catties of grain, enough to give relief to more than 100,000 displaced people, you won't be deceiving me! ”

Li Zixiao said solemnly: "Of course Weichen doesn't dare, the emperor has to be incredible, just a scholar of the Sipin Hanlin Academy, just a small grain, there are 10,000 stone of grain hidden at home, but he refuses to sell it."

Didn't he know that at this time, tens of thousands of disaster victims outside the city were waiting to be fed, and the treasury was stretched, of course he knew.

Because this is what they want, so that they can naturally raise the price of food and make huge profits.

How could such a profiteer not be punished, so Weichen took it upon himself to open a warehouse and release grain, and distributed the 10,000 stone grain to the victims outside the city.

What Weichen couldn't figure out was that the former Yangzhou prefect still had the face to frame Weichen.

Your Majesty, the ministers are dedicated to the court and the Ming Dynasty, and the ministers are panicked! ”

Li Zixiao's words are true or false, he did let Quartz use Yu's family's grain to help the victims, but it was not as much as 10,000 stones, at most more than 1,000 stones.

At that time, he couldn't take the food with him anyway, so he simply distributed it to the victims, and used the enemy's food to earn a good reputation for himself.

Li Zixiao concluded that this time Chongzhen just wanted to beat him and let him settle down in the future, and he would not really send someone to investigate in detail.

But after listening to Li Zixiao's words, the hall was silent, and these officials in the hall knew the habits of those businessmen.

If you want them to donate food and porridge, it is more painful than cutting their flesh, and in order to make money, these profiteers have nothing to do, and they can't do it.

It can be said that in Li Zixiao's description, he did make a lot of mistakes, but they are excusable and understandable.

Chongzhen just took advantage of this matter to knock Li Zixiao, and now after hearing Li Zixiao's explanation, he also took the opportunity to go downhill, smiled, and said: "It seems that I have really wronged you, Li Aiqing, you get up first!" ”

"Emperor Xie!"

Looking at Li Zixiao, who was standing solemnly on the side, Chongzhen smiled and said: "Li Zixiao, you are brave and brave, and you have made great contributions to the imperial court, but you must not act so recklessly in the future, you must act in accordance with the laws and disciplines of the imperial court, understand?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Wechen respectfully obeys the instructions." Li Zixiao replied respectfully.